My village can't be like this

Chapter 109

The four-legged snake is an ugly name given by the local people in Changqing, because its cubs look similar to the four-legged snake in the mountains, so everyone calls it a four-legged snake, also known as a water four-legged snake.

This thing is the familiar salamander, and its scientific name is giant salamander.

Why are they called salamanders? Because most of them live in shallow water areas and often hunt in the water, and the sound in the water is refracted by the water surface, which is very similar to a crying baby, so they are called salamanders.

People of Zhang An’s generation couldn’t hear it anymore. When Zhang Jianguo’s generation was young, such sounds would often be heard in the mountains, very frequently. At that time, everyone didn’t know it was this thing.

That's why the old people said that there are man-eating leprosy in the mountains, which means that someone's child has been arrested.

But in fact, it was because there were so many salamanders in the mountains at that time, and basically you could meet some small ones in the mountains.

Of course, big guys usually hide in caves with water, in rock caves, or in streams in mountains.

Later, this thing was slowly discovered by everyone, and everyone knew that the sound like a crying baby in the mountain was made by this guy.

And because everyone's living conditions were too poor at that time, it began to enter the dining tables of mountain people.

So since then, their number has gradually decreased, and until later, some wealthy people in the city also believed in this stuff.

If there is no sale, there will be no harm, and if someone buys it, someone will catch it, so there are even fewer, and later it was included in the country's big list.

But even so, there are still many people who will go poaching.

In their words, the boss gave too much, and they couldn't refuse.

After the people in the mountains discovered that it was close to it, many adults also used this saying to frighten their disobedient and crying children.

Needless to say, such a method is more effective than coaxing them with nice words. Zhang An was so frightened by Wang Fang when he was young.

What kind of skinny man, leopard, wolf, old man carrying a baby, is frightened every time he cries.

There are three species of giant salamanders in the world. Among them, our domestic species is the largest, and can grow to a length of about 1.8 meters to two meters, which is taller than most people.

Although everyone calls it a salamander, it is not a fish, but an authentic amphibian.

The body is flat and long, with very short limbs, four toes on the forelimbs, five toes on the hind limbs, webbed between the toes, and a short and flat tail.Those who don't know or mistakenly think that fish are actually amphibians. They breathe with gills in water, and breathe with lungs and skin outside water. The skin is only mucous membranes without scales.

"Brother Jianguo, no matter what it is, this is enough to eat several meals, such a big four-legged snake is not easy to see even in the past, and everyone can't finish eating it for a meal. "

Everyone in the mountains has eaten this stuff before, especially people of Zhang Jianguo's generation.

After Wang Xinrong finished speaking, he walked over and hugged the salamander with both hands.

"Hey, it's so heavy, at least thirty catties, not much more."

Zhang An shook his head, this thing could be eaten before, but not now.

"Uncle Xinrong, this guy is no longer edible, otherwise you will have to eat national food."

"What do you mean, what do you mean eating national food?" Wang Xinrong was a little confused when he heard it, and he couldn't understand what Zhang An said.

"Eating national food means going to jail, and you will be sent to a labor camp. If you eat it, you will have to go in and sing tears behind bars, but I remember that Uncle Xinrong's tears behind bars are very good."

"You kid, you'll joke around with your Uncle Xinrong, there's nothing young or old at all."

Zhang An was told by Zhang Jianguo, so he could only laugh.

Then Zhang An remembered that there is no such thing as eating a national meal or stepping on a sewing machine, but everyone knows about going in and making a paradise umbrella.

"This guy is now a national protected animal. It seems that he was on the list a few years ago. If you eat it, let alone go in and squat for a few years. The country will provide you with free food."

When it comes to going to jail, these people know that they are afraid.

"What is it, if you eat this stuff, you will go to jail now?"

Wang Xinrong was taken aback by Zhang An's words, and quickly threw the salamander in his hand into the ditch.

This scare is no less frightening than just being frightened by the cries of the four-legged snake.

Not only Wang Xinrong was terrified, but even the salamander that was caught by it just now was terrified and screamed.

Who the hell doesn't talk about martial arts, gently hugged Lao Tzu, and dropped him high, right? It's not that you don't feel pain when you get hit, right?

"Then what should we do if we ate so much before? We won't be arrested, right?"

"That's not true. You didn't care about what you ate before, but you can't eat it in the future. Otherwise, you may not only be jailed, but also fined."

Hearing that Zhang An said that what he had eaten before was not counted, the group of people who gathered around to watch the fun felt relaxed.

Otherwise, one of these people counts as one, and they all have criminal records, and none of them can escape.

"Then what should we do with this thing now? It can't be kept here all the time. It's scary at night if we keep calling it that way."

I can't move, and it's scary at night. It's a tricky thing to hold.

"The four-legged snake is very sensitive to the environment. It won't come to places with poor water quality. Coming here shows that the environment in our village is very good.

I reckon it has crawled into the village long ago, but it may have been smoked by the thick smoke from the steamed buns in our village, which made it scream strangely, otherwise I haven't heard it for a few days. "

Zhang An thought for a while, and then told everyone about his guess.

"So, it's scary to put it here, why don't you put it in the big river, let it go where it wants to go."

Everyone doesn't want to keep such a hot potato by their side. This thing is like a bodhisattva now. If something happens, it will cause trouble for nothing.

"I don't like to put it indiscriminately. If other people in the village who don't know it see it and catch a pot of stew at home, then the joke will be big. I think it's better to put it in the fish pond of Zhang An's family. Tomorrow, notify the people in the town to take it away."

It’s not that you caught it by yourself in the village, just take it home and eat it quietly, even if you don’t know it, you can’t catch it by mistake.

There are too many open walls in the countryside. You may think that what you are doing is airtight, but in fact, someone has already known it.

Otherwise, there would not be so many examples in those remote mountains in later generations.

Although most people have no hatred or hatred, they will not take the initiative to report you without any big interests.

But there are some people who just don’t like others, know that you have this matter, keep it in your heart, and quietly sue you later, and most of the defendants are caught by mistake, not deliberately of.

Of course, you can't say how about others, after all, they are actively helping the country protect wild animals.

Zhang An rolled his eyes on the spot when he heard that they put it in the fish pond in his yard.

"You really come up with a bad idea. This thing eats meat. If you put it in this big one, the fish in my fish pond will not suffer."

"It's not easy. Isn't there no fish in the fish pond on the side of your new house? Just put it there. There are no people there, and there is no smoke for burning paper. I will give it to the town tomorrow morning. call them to come and take them away."

Zhang Jianwen originally roasted the buns at the door of his house, and his house was far away, so he didn't hear the salamander's cry.

When I was about to come out to plant incense, I saw so many people gathered together, so I also gathered around.

Zhang An finally thought about it, and this was the only way to go.

If Zhang An hadn't said it today, everyone probably wouldn't know that this thing is no longer edible.

After everyone dispersed, Zhang An grabbed it and walked towards the new house.

The dog was still struggling, swinging its head and tail back and forth.

When grabbing it, Zhang An was very careful, this guy's teeth are no joke.

Moreover, its attack power is very fierce. It is said that in ancient times, the crocodile's ultimate move of death roll was learned from it.

But in the end, Zhang An didn't put it in the fish pond, but threw it into the space. There are many fish in the space, so it can be spoiled casually.

It is also fate that Zhang An met this big guy, so let him enjoy the pleasure of being full in the space.

If it is put directly into the fish pond, it will be difficult to find this thing by then.

After entering the space, Zhang An only took a closer look. There were some red, yellow and brown spots on the back of this big guy, which is a bit rare.

Although other salamanders have some tiny spots on their bodies, they are not so big.

The spots on his body are bigger than copper coins.

After climbing into the space fish pond, this thing timidly observed the situation in the fish pond for a long time, then suddenly became fierce after slowing down, and began to prey on the fish in the fish pond.

Zhang An looked at this guy's violent appearance, and he was worthy of being the overlord of shallow water. It seemed that he could have a full meal now.

The fish in the fish pond: "Yes, yes, you are lofty, you are amazing, why did you make this guy into our house, I fuck you."

There are a lot of burdens in every household, and it will take a long time to completely burn them out. The whole village is now filled with smoke, and there is indeed that atmosphere.

After burning the bundles, we haven't finished the calculations yet, because we still have to send our ancestors out.

After burning the paper money tonight, the ancestors invited by the family to worship will be sent out, and the memorial tablets worshiped at home will also be put away.

It is also very simple to see off the ancestors. Take out a lot of incense sticks and light them. From the door of the house to the back of the village or their tombs, walk a few steps and insert a burning incense stick. After that, it can be regarded as leading the way for them.

Changqing Village is special because there are mostly paddy fields near the village.

A long time ago, before his death, an old man told his descendants not to bury him in a nearby fertile field by taking advantage of the time of his reflection.

If you have the heart, you can bury him on a distant mountain and go to see him on the fifteenth day of the Qingming Festival.

Because the fertile land in the village is the lifeline of everyone, if he is buried in the field, the descendants of his family will have less food than other families, and there will be more people than enough to eat, and he will be clean after he leaves.

Since then, when the old people in the village passed away, they were all buried in distant mountains.

It's just that this will test their own descendants a little bit. Some people in later generations are unwilling to go to the grave because it is too far away and too troublesome.

This has become an unwritten custom in Changqing, so there is not a single tomb to be seen in this part of the village.

Unlike other villages, they are everywhere from the entrance to the back of the village.

There are quite a few children in the village who like to plant incense, and everyone sticks to the side of the road.

But the children who are going to plant incense will not play or chat on the road tonight.

Because the adults in the family said hello, they could only insert their own incense sticks, and they were not allowed to talk nonsense, and they would come back by themselves after inserting, otherwise they would be beaten.

This can be regarded as a kind of taboo, and the children are also worried about getting hurt, so they just go home after inserting it honestly.

If there are no children at home, adults should do it.

Moreover, many people may not understand that rural people usually have poor food and poor clothing, and if you let him eat better and wear better, he says that he wants to save money, so let it be.

But on a day like the fifteenth day of the Qingming Festival, spending money on the deceased old man in the family does not feel bad at all.

This is because some people do this to pray for the blessings of their ancestors.

Another reason is to miss those who have died in the family. For example, the old man in the village whose son died in a mining accident worried that his son would have a bad life down here. He not only burned the buns, but also made some paper clothes. The shoes burned.

Poor parents in the world.

For now, this kind of sacrificial activity is still followed by everyone's own heart, but it has changed in the decades to come.

Some people really want to compare even this, and the poorer they are, the more they want to compare.

Seeing that other people's homes are burning more, I have to grit my teeth to outdo theirs. I can't compare, so I can't let the old people below.

There are also people who don’t treat them well when the elders are alive, or even ignore them. After the elders are gone, they do amazing things in this regard.

It seems that he wants to let others see that he is really filial.

But as everyone knows, everyone has steelyards in their hearts. If they really want to be so filial, why not treat them better when they are alive.

Of course, most of these people just know it in their hearts.

In the early morning of the next day, every household was up and was cleaning up the ashes piled up in front of the door last night.

On the roadside of the village, there are dense sticks of incense sticks and a few unburned incense sticks.

If this happened in later generations, such a large amount of burning paper money would definitely be banned by experts.

Because they will say that burning such a large amount of paper money causes too much pollution to the atmosphere, and it also pollutes the air and damages the environment.

Zhang An was following Zhang Jianguo to clean up the gate of the yard when Uncle Zhang Jianwen came over.

"Zhang An, I called the town, but they couldn't grasp it. They have already called the forestry department in the county. They will send someone over at noon. The four-legged snake didn't run away, right?"

After the old village chief finished talking to Zhang An, he asked a question.

He was quite worried that when people came later, if the four-legged snake ran away, they would say that they had hidden them.

"No, old man, I'll wrap it in a fishing net, so it won't run away."

After Zhang An got up early in the morning, he took it out of the space and put it there.

"Why use fishing nets? Just put them in the pond."

"Then when people come to look for it, I have to drain the water in the pond to find it. It's too troublesome."

(End of this chapter)